...Stories of the lived experience of suffering or injustice can be powerful vehicles for building empathy and insight into the stigma, shame, pain and indignity of others. Stories can create a foundation on which experiential learning builds. But just as stories can draw us into proximity with each...

... of the ‘risk’ approach to governing illicit drug use and the process of ‘othering’ it sustains is examined. The discussion provides a framework for the ensuing chapters which focus more closely on the specific governmental techniques and procedures used in the control and regulation of women’s illicit drug use...

... of stranger relationships through care ethics. As well as apparently casual face to face interactions with strangers, the chapter also discusses treatment of refugees and those with mental illness. It also reflects on interactions with unknown others through ICT in order to consider to relevance of care...

...This chapter reflects upon how out-of-work benefit claimants see both themselves and others in a time of welfare reform, and discusses the pervasive reach and consequences of benefits stigma. It details the widespread evidence of individuals’ critiquing their own benefits receipt, often seeming...

... availability and access’ and on the state’s obligation to ‘respect, protect and fulfil the right to food’. Theories of ‘othering’ and ‘agency’ are employed to assess the social acceptability of emergency food systems as a means of acquiring food, and the power of providers to make sufficient food available...

... reciprocity and the notion of ‘taking while not giving’. It is also shown that welfare recipients can tend to justify their own receipt by questioning the deservingness of others and that this has a tendency to manifest in the practice of othering. The practice of othering is shown to range from something...

... people and things over others, to the detriment of all involved. The chapter captures this harm with concepts crucial to the rest of the book, such as the practice of “Othering” and the gender binary’s sacred trinity, which consists of the “universal subject,” “Western Man,” and “the self-contained...

... as interwoven with historical and contextualized repertoires of imperialism, reproduced in constructions of regionalized otherness. border control Erdoğan Tayyip Evros Edirne Borderlands Greek Turkish border media Mitsotakis Kyriakos Othering Syria Turkey violence asylum seekers critical discourse...

...This chapter looks at the ‘othering’ of migrants within discourses of return migration — a reflection of the complex interplay between race, ethnicity, and other aspects of identity, particularly in the fluid context of migration. It analyses Polish and Estonian social policy experts' narratives...

... emancipation Othering subjugation historisation conservative paradigm unique outcomes knowledge symbolic capital power case study Othering subjectivity context intervention Semadar, an experienced social worker, wrote the intervention story that forms the core of this chapter...

... of workers worker displacement civic world perspective meaningful work Pettit P prohibition of forced labour Workfare volunteering Welfare Mutual obligation Othering Recognition Redistribution Welfare policies in Western countries are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity and activating...

.../establishment’), (2) antagonistic vibe as virtue, (3) a direct and intimate mode of leading and organizing, (4) a performative style that savors “flaunting the low,” and (5) an undeserving third party (an Other) with whom the elite/establishment are in cahoots. general will Mudde Cas Occupy Wall Street...

... beta males capitalism incels involuntary celibates masculine supremacy superiority Others reverse discrimination self contained individual universal subject Western Man climate change cause pufferfish pufferfishery sociophysical manly appropriations of class and populism crises...

... on referring expressions and discursive strategies used to represent older adults in the texts and headlines. The texts promote a largely one-dimensional view of older adults as vulnerable, powerless victims. On the other hand, certain old individuals are depicted as heroes in their charitable ventures...

... an opportunity for social work and social workers to challenge the orthodoxy of a focus on risk management. To this end, the chapter draws on the work of Emmanuel Levinas to examine the notions of the duties we, as humans, owe each other. It first provides an overview of the politics of discourses of human...

... to what extent such encounters are associated with embarrassment and/or shame and whether this affects people’s sense of empowerment, identity, well-being and resource use. The chapter also looks at if and how people engage in ‘othering’, distancing themselves from others through negative processes. Chase...

...This chapter focuses attention on sex offenders who, perhaps more than any other 'type' of offender, have been systematically vilified, demonised, and ostracised from mainstream society. The author argues that, for once, the public, the media, the government, and – worryingly – large numbers...

...This chapter examines the power dynamics of child abuse through the sociological lens of ‘othering’. This chapter’s analysis is set in its historical context, tracing developments up to the present day. Parental indifference historically emerges as a key issue, reflecting a wider societal...

... Immigration Othering The Coalition government’s impact assessment of the Bedroom Tax policy, published in 2012, stated that there would be no social impacts resulting from its implementation. At best, this assessment was woefully ignorant of the meaning of stable housing in people’s lives. Those affected...

...This chapter explores the concept of racialization, or the social ascription of race to certain bodies, as a central marker of Otherness in contemporary constructions of (non-)belonging around sexuality and gender. By drawing on works from the fields of Black studies, critical race studies and post...